Got my first kilt today. Great-Kilt! (PICS)

[auld argonian]

If you're going to swing that sword around, try not to get blood on your new kilt.

Really....best thing to do is to get naked for the actual battle and then you can rinse the blood off, don your new great kilt and be fresh a a daisy for the apres-melee festivities. Have a flagon of mead...

Looks good...especially if you have, as you said, just sort of thrown it on for the photo. Sporran?

Best

AA

[DWFII]

Is it a "trick of the light" or is the over-apron closing to the left?

[Rome]

Is it a "trick of the light" or is the over-apron closing to the left?

No, it does "close on the left", I hadn't known which side to fold over myself first. But based on your comment I guess I did it backwards!

Thanks for the tip.

[Riverkilt]

Well, you certainly have the hair for this enterprise!

Think there are some "how to" pages on the Internet, maybe even on this board....sort of a firefighter's "drop and roll" technique.

Can't imagine where I'd be trying to don a great kilt...you're a brave lad.

Ron

[Ian.MacAllan]

I think you have done an excellent job of donning the great wrap. Getting the upper part to drape attractively in the back is by far the most difficult part of the process and the part with which most of us need help most of the time. A full-length mirror behind and an adjustable one before is a great help, but it still takes quite a bit of patience and practice to learn to do it yourself.

I seriously doubt that there is any historical precedent for knife-edge pleats in a great wrap, and would not bother to iron the garment at all, except possibly for formal wear. Folds of approximately equal size are much more plausible than any kind of pleats. And I don't use the great wrap as formal wear at all because I consider that usage a 19th- and 20th-century innovation not appreciated in the USA.

Wear it in good health and with great pleasure.

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[Rome]

I seriously doubt that there is any historical precedent for knife-edge pleats in a great wrap, and would not bother to iron the garment at all, except possibly for formal wear. Folds of approximately equal size are much more plausible than any kind of pleats. And I don't use the great wrap as formal wear at all because I consider that usage a 19th- and 20th-century innovation not appreciated in the USA.

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Hmm, I hadn't even thought of that. Everything I saw on here was so impeccably pleated, but if I got it to primarily wear to Renaissance Festivals, I guess its true that it would not be steam pleated to perfection, but rather pleated for quickness, and efficiency. (EDIT: worst run on and comma infested sentence I've ever written, so i'm leaving it in my post)

Which, after doing some research, seems to be how the 17th century "great kilt" style kilts were worn, pleat it and go!

Thanks for the comment

[csbdr]

Nice job!!

[Phogfan86]

I'm with Riverkilt on this one: you're a better man than I for jumping into this undertaking. For a first-time effort, you did a terrific job!

[Caddy One]

Why would you wear it on Halloween ?

[DWFII]

No, it does "close on the left", I hadn't known which side to fold over myself first. But based on your comment I guess I did it backwards!

Thanks for the tip.

I agree with all the others that it is a bold undertaking to wear the breacan faille but other than the left/right question it looks good to me.

FWIW, all men's clothing--trousers, coats, shirts, etc.--closes to the right, as does the billet on men's belts.

All women's clothing is supposed to close to the left...of course with women, in general, being so into "cross-dressing" these days you can never tell.